On Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 3:06:21 PM UTC-4, motech man wrote: > I made a breakthrough this morning after reading the "Support for EFI" thread > 794, where one guy said he was able to successfully install by invocation of > xen.efi directly from a shell. > > When I used the efi shell override I was able to launch the xen.efi with: > > fs0: > cd EFI\BOOT > xen.efi placeholder qubes > > I made sure the BIOS boot mode was UEFI and not EFI+Legacy, and I booted from > the USB key. > > I previously partitioned the SSD using a GParted Live CD and I could see all > of those partitions. However I elected to delete them all and let Qubes > "autopart" the drive instead. > > The installation was generally straightforward. There was a very long pause > when the progress bar reached 790 out of 900ish, but it finally completed and > gave me the Successfully Installed message. > > I have 2 drives but I was only asked for a passphrase once that I recall. If > I was asked for one a second time I used the same value, that I'm absolutely > positive of. > > I still have 2 major hurdles to resolve: > > 1) The system will not boot Qubes automatically, I must use the efi shell > override to boot off the SSD. > > 2) Once booted I get the gray screen with a Q in the middle, and a prompt for > a disk password. It doesn't accept the passphrase I was asked for during > installation. > > If I hit the ESC key it switches to text mode and asks for a password / > phrase for each drive. Entering the same value I provided during installation > doesn't work, and suggests to use systemctl with a very long arg. > > At first I thought #1 was caused by not providing a hard disk boot option, > but after adding it as the only option I am directed to setup. > > I noticed that there are 2 devices that seem to point to the same EFI > partition. Only 1 will start the OS using: > > fs0: > cd \EFI\Qubes > xen.efi > > I used no args. I presume it gets the details from the xen.cfg file. > > So here I am at the next hurdle to overcome. Time to google again, and should > I not find any help from that will try: > Re: Great difficulty > 1) Using recovery/rescue option of installer > 2) Going through installation once more > > Any and all suggestions welcome.
I still don't understand why you can't boot on legacy mode. only diff I see my bios has 3 options. uefi, uefi+legacy, or legacy only. I use legacy only but I don't see why it should make a diff. I don't bother with uefi cause secure boot aint used. I'm not sure why else one would need it? Another guy in another thread has similar issue to you. Are you also using another os on a diff drive and swapping? maybe your bios gets confused. Or maybe its just the partitioning? The installer should be able to partition your drive for you. I have most bios features off. like fast boot off top of my head. I have to double check my controller hand offs but I believe I have those off too. These new mobos certainly have alot of usb options worth double checking. I have it set to other os, secure boot and everything else off. I have no more suggestions for you so hopefully someone else can chime in. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/e30a6042-d8d8-4606-8209-eed08271e3ff%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
